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just out of curiosity, does anyone find these HN postings useful? wouldn't your critical shit break long before you go read about it on HN? otherwise, why not just rely on their human-friendly status pages that get served if such a thing occurs? i don't understand why this is on the front page, since it's not an infrequent occurrence.
in other news, it must really suck to be github where your service being down is front page HN news.
I think someone should write a tutorial about how to continue working while Github goes down. If you're trying to deploy from a master branch on GitHub, this could be an issue, but if you're just trying to share projects between peers, this should be a that big of a deal right?
just out of curiosity, does anyone find these HN postings useful? wouldn't your critical shit break long before you go read about it on HN? otherwise, why not just rely on their human-friendly status pages that get served if such a thing occurs? i don't understand why this is on the front page, since it's not an infrequent occurrence.
There is a reliable indicator of whether or not people found the post useful - the number of points the submission has. To be honest, I find comments like yours far less useful, and they are not infrequent either.
but many (all?) submissions that make it to the front page get there by being manually curated there, not by accumulating upvotes first. on the flip side of the same coin, a lot of good things never make it to the front page, even if they gain a lot of points.
just out of curiosity, does anyone find these HN postings useful? wouldn't your critical shit break long before you go read about it on HN? otherwise, why not just rely on their human-friendly status pages that get served if such a thing occurs? i don't understand why this is on the front page, since it's not an infrequent occurrence.
Also the posting comments become a 'place' to put suggestions, alternatives, and other measures to deal with the issue.
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Github's awesome, but yah, that's the downside of having one place that hosts so much code. Having some outage or disruption is feeling like a bi-weekly event..
"bi-weekly"... Do you mean twice a week or fortnightly?
On a previous team we developed the mental image of a bicycle, consisting of two cycles.
It seemed to help at the time.. but now I think about it I'm not sure how it did!